Friday Memes: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

 Happy Friday everybody!

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Beginning:

Before Mazer invented himself as Mazer, he was Samson Mazer, and before he was Samson Mazer, he was Samson Masur -- a change of two letters that transformed him from a nice, ostensibly Jewish boy to a Professional Builder of Worlds -- and for most of his youth, he was Sam, S.A.M. on the hall of fame of his grandfather's Donkey Kong machine, but mainly Sam.

Friday 56:

"For the record, I was resentful. I will always regret Space Camp. But Alice? Mapletown was all Sam," she admitted. "I had pretty much nothing to do with Mapletown."

"That can't be true."

"Honestly, it was Sam. He made Mapletown; I made Myre Landing."

This week I am spotlighting Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin from my Review stack. It sounds quite different from the books I usually read.

Here is the description from Amazon:

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.